Permit us to pass by the highw...

Permit us to pass by the highway of the tavern

For , for a draught , in need of this tavern - door , we are all . *** On the first day of eternity without beginning when , of profligacy and of love , we boasted ,

Its condition was that , no path save the Path of this way of love we tread . *** The place this world where the masnad of Sulaiman goeth to the wind of destruction

Pleasant , it is not if we suffer grief . Best , that we drink wine . *** Let us see , it may be that , in his girdle , one's hand one can fix

Seated in the heart's blood , like the red ruby , are we . *** Admonisher to us make not the counsel of the distraught . For we ,

With possessing the glorious dust of the Friend's street , look not at Paradise . *** Since by sama' the Sufis are in the mystic state of the dance ,

We also by the sorcery of love - play a hand uplift in rapture *** From thy draught sprinkling earth gained the rank of the mighty ruby

Before Thee , less than the dust are we helpless lovers because , to us Thou inclinest not *** Before that dear life passeth ,

Permit us to pass before Thy face . *** Hafiz when there is no path to the turret of the palace of union ,

Our head , with the dust of the threshold of this door , let us take . ***